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Digital Business Automation Ideas


This is an IBM Automation portal for Digital Business Automation products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas
  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Please use the following category to raise ideas for these offerings for all environments (traditional on premises, containers, on cloud):
  • Cloud Pak for Business Automation - including Business Automation Studio and App Designer, Business Automation Insights

  • Business Automation Workflow (BAW) - including BAW, Business Process Manager, Workstream Services, Business Performance Center, Advanced Case Management

  • Content Services - FileNet Content Manager

  • Content Services - Content Manager OnDemand

  • Content Services - Daeja Virtual Viewer

  • Content Services - Navigator

  • Content Services - Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files

  • Content Services - Content Collector for SAP

  • Content Services - Enterprise Records

  • Content Services - Content Manager (CM8)

  • Datacap

  • Automation Document Processing

  • Automation Decision Services (ADS)

  • Operational Decision Manager

  • Robotic Process Automation

  • Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere

  • Blueworks Live

  • Business Automation Manager Open Edition

  • IBM Process Mining


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.


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Pinned ideas

PINNED SQL statements in Dashboard Widgets
I think using SQL statements in widgets would be great to leverage the entire potential of the data uploaded to IBM Process Mining. Lots of important and helpful information cannot be displayed today as it's only SQL-like. I don't think that using...
PINNED Filter UI enables having OR between filters (not just AND)
Users want to filter cases for client1 OR client2. They can't without creating a custom filter with javascript -- which they don't like at all

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The "Reason" field is not listed after changing EPV in Server Admin/Admin Tools/Manage EPVs

After changing the value of an existing EPV in Server Admin/Admin Tools/Manage EPVs, we fill the reason field in. But in the list of the changed EPV does not display the reason field. Therefore we do not know why previous changes have been made. T...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Expose event (either intermediate or attached) implementation for REST API call

Using rest API is a more common way to get the process implementation. Currently, IBM supports the process model and process visual model API to get the process implementation but they don't include the event implementation (e.g: interrupt option ...
almost 4 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Provide BWL API capability to support the export of Metadata that would be used to link BWL Process Diagrams to associated BWL Process Applications

Description: Provide BWL API capability to support the export of Metadata that would be used to link BWL Process Diagrams to associated BWL Process Applications. This Metadata would be included as part of an export that can be fed into another sys...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Provide samples to implement the custom Simulation Job Listener

Currently there are no samples to implement the Custom Job listener to customize the simulation data source, we tried to implement and faced a lot of issues. As this issue might be faced by the other customers so it might be useful that IBM assess...
over 1 year ago in Operational Decision Manager 1 Not under consideration

User unsuccessful login audit

Due to security requirements, we should be able to audit both successful and unsuccessful login attempts to the platform using CPD. Currently, only successful events are being logged.
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation 2 Planned for future release

Hiding User Profile options

When a user is editing his profile he gets a list of attributes displayed even if they are not available.We are not using "IBM Connections notification" but the option gets displayed in the user profile and would like to hide this for the users.
over 6 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

IBM BAW to support Java11

Hi IBM Team, As per our Citi requirements BAW product has to be run on Java11. When we checked with vendor support on this. They have confirmed as "At this point, there are no plans for IBM BAW to support Java 11. " We Citi CATE Engineering team r...
over 2 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Support visibility concept for TK artifacts

Today all artifacts in Toolkits are public and can be re-used from other TKs or PAs that reference the TK.Yet common practice should be to structure the content of a TK in artifacts that are exposed and can be re-used and artifacts that are intern...
over 5 years ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Ability to temporarily suspend IP address lockdown without losing configuration

At present IP address lockdown has no memory; i.e. if you temporarily switch it off for what ever reason you lose all the settings and need to retype them instead of just switching back on.
over 9 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Allow deleting credentials even if they are on inactive schedules

I opened a support case with this issue number TS008442792 and they were instructed to open a new idea here. The problem is that Control Center RPA does not delete credentials EVEN WHEN IT IS ONLY ON INACTIVE SCHEDULES. If the credential is on an ...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration